During the year starting on July 2017, the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Portuguese National Azulejo Museum), the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil and the HERCULES Laboratory of the University of Evora made a joint ...

In this article some aspects of the production technology connected with the preparation of the glaze and of the biscuit and with the firing cycle have been researched in order to better understand their effects on the ...

With the increasing international appreciation of Portuguese azulejos, spurred not only by the acknowledgement of their integration in Baroque architecture as a unique heritage, but also by the continued use of painted ...

Aloïs Riegl in The Modern Cult of Monuments, originally published in 1903, was one of the first to ascribe a historical value to the results of a technology when he stated that even a torn-off slip of paper with a short ...

During the 19th century azulejos started to be used mostly in urban façades, a novel application that opened the way for the “faience towns”. However, by the late 1930s, the azulejos were considered something outdated, ...

Several books present and discuss the use of azulejos in Portuguese modernist architecture. However, these tend to ignore the use of other glazed ceramics of uncertain classification in the same context. Through the process ...

O presente artigo, alicerçado nos Projetos de investigação CyberParks e C3Places, examina como as tecnologias digitais podem envolver os utilizadores na cocriação de um espaço público aberto que responda às suas necessidades, ...

In this paper, we introduce a theoretical discussion that aims to uncover some of the intermediation that hides behind the formal and informal pairs and argues the interest in innovating certain formalisms of urban intervention ...

This article discusses the craftsmanship involved in the tasks associated with the production/creation of azulejo. In this article the socio-technical memory of those who made them is therefore specially considered. The ...

This contribution presents a conceptual discussion about how teenagers use public spaces and introduces the structure of a Case Study in Lisbon’s Alvalade neighbourhood conducted within the European Project C3Places – using ...